Example sentences of "the [pron] [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the one who 'd complained the most loudly and vociferously about Blend Six not being up to the job , that the burn characteristics were wrong , that the car was running uneven . |
| 2 | She was the one with the debts and money problems ; the one who 'd suggested the jeweller 's shop job . |
| 3 | Then the guy round the corner , y'know , the one who 'd laid the gear on me , came round last month and started getting heavy about the money I owed him . |
| 4 | Since they 'd met he was the one who had been in charge , the one who had called the tune . |
| 5 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |
| 6 | He was the one who had got the photograph that had enabled her father to do the portrait . |
| 7 | It was the biggest of her sons speaking now , the one who had opened the door , and he said , ‘ She 's a classy piece , Ma , and she 's come with some strange news . |
| 8 | When you run out of money you know the one who 's got the most when you run out of money |
| 9 | It is a dual responsibility , for the one who has caused the anger needs to show his or her commitment to putting right the anger reaction in some way . |
| 10 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 11 | The supposedly irritable elderly person is often the one who has had the gall to defend against such ( often unintended ) ‘ put-downs ’ . |
| 12 | Even the one who has betrayed the light sooner or later is forced to come back to the centre of stability , where he is raised once more into the understanding of clarity and purity of thought and action . |